François Ozon might be the best director I have ever seen who has never made a film that I would actually consider great. Été 85 is no different, depicting an 80s love drama with a twist (that it introduces right away) but including scenes that only a master of the craft could come up with. It's one of those films where everything seems to click but just can't keep its momentum up until the finish line.
Rare Dutch film that's actually somewhat interesting. Three disillusioned young adults end up together on a road trip throughout Europe with little purpose and questionable goals. With minimum dialogue there's actually very little to get out of this film, but it has an atypical rawness and strangely direct approach to its drama and events that it's still interesting to watch.
A Mongolian film that is as fascinatingly weird as they come. On the wide steppe of Mongolia the corpse of a young woman is discovered. The police order a rookie to guard the corpse against wolves during the night while they return to town to bring in the right people and equipment. A female herder is asked to assist the rookie. Spending the night together the female herder takes action, and different events happen. Long wide shots show the flat distant plains and the characters who occupy them. In almost documentary fashion we follow the female herder in her daily routine, asking help from a male companion for the harder tasks. After the opening scene discussing the crime scene, almost all dialogues are about relationships and romance, and a big question in the middle: how can the herders, the dinosaurs of of Mongolia, prevent themselves from going extinct?